Online Profiles
Universitaire – ResearchGate
Statement of Research Interests
Main focus: Violence perpetrated by women
Implementation of two violence risk assessment tools in a provincial correctional facility for women;
Portrait of the female clientele of Correctional Services of Québec (CSQ) from the perspective of sexual exploitation, prostitution and human trafficking inside and outside the country;
Female spousal violence: a study of risk factors in a sample of women receiving violence prevention support
Implicit theories and help-seeking trajectories of women who engage in spousal abuse.
Awards and Distinctions
- 2014: PhD thesis in criminology (Université de Montréal), approved unanimously by the thesis committee, recognized as « Excellent » and recommended for the Dean’s Honour List in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
2014: PhD thesis in forensic medicine and legal sciences, approved with the distinction « Very Honourable with Committee Praise » (Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Keywords
Psychopathy and antisocial behaviour, women and violence, help-seeking trajectories, violence risk assessment, structured clinical judgment, infanticide and familicide, personality disorders, prison environment, forensic psychiatry, expert forensic reports
Research Projects
In this short video, Joao explains what two of his research projects are about. One focuses on women who have experienced sexual exploitation and the other on implementing research tools for assessing and managing the risk of violence with this same clientele.
Can the consumption of rap and hip-hop music among children hospitalized in forensic psychiatry play a role in their behaviour?